Epigrams from The Picture of Dorian Gray (Part 2)

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" is a novel by Oscar Wilde that explores the themes of vanity, moral corruption, and the consequences of living a hedonistic lifestyle. The story follows Dorian Gray, a young man who wishes to remain forever youthful and beautiful, while his portrait ages and reflects the moral decay of his actions.

In this second batch's epigrams, you'll find it more daring, more thought-provoking, and more seducing to the mind and heart. Lest, you can assure that your collective thoughts are typically intact and couldn't waver, think again, for these illustrious thoughts from Mr. Oscar Wilde are beaters of conscience.

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13. To define is to limit

14. Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular, one must be a mediocrity

15. Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

16. I have never searched for happiness, who wants happiness? i have searched for pleasure.

17. There were two cries heard, the cry of a hare in pain, which is dreadful, and the cry of a man in agony, which is worse

18. The basis of every scandal is an immoral certainty

19. Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful

20. Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

21. Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

22. If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart

23. Like the painting of a sorrow. A face without heart

24. What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and lose his own soul?

25. The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but one is young.

26. Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

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